Collette King transformation director at First Ark, an innovative social business employing over 600 people in the North West, worked with transformation experts, The Connectives, in a three year, £4.5m transformation programme that has been critical to the organisation’s sustainability, effectiveness and efficiency.
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I recently spent a week in Indonesia helping two organisations – WOCAN (Women Organising for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management) and Hivos – measure the social impact of two biogas technology projects using the W+ Standard.

Last year I went to Nepal with WOCAN (Women Organising for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management), in July this year, I will be flying out again with WOCAN nd Hivos to help measure the social impact of two biogas projects in Indonesia…

India has become the first country in the world to mandate a minimum spend on corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Its new CSR guidelines require companies to spend two per cent of their net profit on social development and it seems to have provoked celebration and derision in equal measures…

Though it’s improving, women and people from BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities are still underrepresented at board level in construction, limiting the sector’s ability to deliver all that it might and ensure it’s relevant to many of its customers and their customers too.